Object

Representation ID: 14016

Received: 01/11/2021

Respondent: Mrs Louise Bullows

I have lived in Mob Lane all my life and work for the local secondary school. So with this is mind I can see the following issues to this proposal and listed are my reasons for objection.
*Flooding risk of the site and surrounding area, at present when we have very wet weather over a period of time or a heavy downpour the fields absorb alot of this water. This would not be the case if the building of these houses go ahead, as it will be mainly tarmac'd drives, roads and concrete pads of houses. I for one would hold the council responsible and the housing contractor at fault if my property is flooded and/ or if I am unable to insure my house against this. A couple of houses already suffer this problem since the rebuild of the secondary school changed the land into a car park and flooding in neighbours rear garden occurs.
*Road networks, the whole area is not suitable to take on another 700+ houses to be built. A family home averages at least 2 cars per household, which would mean an additional 1400 cars to the area where the road network can not take further traffic. Coronation Road/ Mob Lane is a narrow road already, we have had incidents where buses in the past have got stuck due to parking and lack of private driveways. With Coronation Road/ Mob Lane being one of the main routes from Pelsall and Walsall Wood for school traffic it becomes very congested and goes to standstill on a daily basis. Also the both road links Green Lane and Vicarage Road by the bridge have serious flooding/drainage issues, where vehilces have got stuck or access has not been possible due flooding. Also Pelsall Common crossroads traffic lights have already been a site of numerous deaths due to traffic issues.
*Local amenities, High Heath and Pelsall are already an oversubscribed area with schools, doctors etc. The seconday school that I work for is already classed as an OVERSUBSCRIBED School. I understand that you wish to build another primary school and doctors, but this doesnt ease the issue in the area, it just become ad addiotional add on.
*Local Nature, The whole area that you are proposing is a thrive of various wildlife such as Deer, bats, otter, barn owls, foxes, newts, buzzards, sparrowhawks to name but a few. We have already taken so much from this local area already. This will all go and we will become barren to all of this. This area has already lost substantial farm land and I thought one of the goverments main stratergies was Green Spaces.
*Mental Health, Further to the Pandemic, people used this area to walk, take exercise, cycle take in the healing properties that nature can give to each individual or families. It has been cruicial for the Mental Health and well being of this area durring this time and for the future.